Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dana H. Myers wrote: > >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Al Hopper wrote: >>> >>>> Followup: When you say you "fixed the HW", I'm curious as to what you >>>> found and if this experience with ZFS convinced you that your trusted >>>> RAID >>>> H/W did, in fact, have issues? >>>> >>>> Do you think that it's likely that there are others running production >>>> systems on RAID systems that they trust, but don't realize may have >>>> bugs >>>> (causing data corruption) that have yet to be discovered? >>> >>> And this is different from any other storage system, how? (ie, JBOD >>> controllers and disks can also have subtle bugs that corrupt data) >> >> Of course, but there isn't the expectation of data reliability with a >> JBOD that there is with some RAID configurations. >> > > There is not? People buy disk drives and expect them to corrupt their > data? I expect the drives I buy to work fine (knowing that there could > be bugs etc in them, the same as with my RAID systems).
So, what do you think reliable RAID configurations are for? Dana _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
